Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strength of the free enterprise system depends upon the availability of people who are willing to accept challenges and responsibilities-the movers and shakers of a complacent society...
...call them that--were first produced at the Hasty Pudding Club on Holyoke St., many strange things have come to pass on the stage where drag shows reign supreme. While a non--drag show in the Pudding's comfortably cheesy house may be rather difficult for jaded Cantabrigians to accept, it is certainly a refreshing change...
...refusal, Thailand may be ready to respond to U.S. pressure for better care of its migrants. The U.S. has earmarked $210 million over the next five years to help permanently resettle 40,000 to 50,000 refugees in Thailand. Last week the Justice Department announced that the U.S. will accept 25,000 more Indochinese in addition to the 160,000 who have been admitted to the U.S. since 1975. Australia is committed to taking 6,000 refugees from Thailand, and France is scheduled to resettle 10,000. At that rate, U.N. officials note, refugee departures from Thailand to more hospitable...
...overseas bribes. Despite such visible failings, he argues, there is far more talent in business than in politics, and therefore business should do much to solve global problems, including malnutrition. This is both the right and the smart thing to do, he reasons, and business should be willing to accept less than its usual profit, since Third World pressures will disrupt Western economies if hunger continues...
...need to defend what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes used to call '"freedom for the thought that we hate" is not easy to accept, for a public whose thoughts naturally turn to gas chambers and attempted genocide. The A.C.L.U. has been bitterly attacked for defending Nazis' rights. Its membership, heavily Jewish, has dropped from a peak of 270,000 in 1976 to 200,000 today. A resultant $500,000 decline in dues and gifts has caused staff layoffs of up to 15% in some state offices. There is now less money to defend civil rights and liberties...